NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 400W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2610MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (678.4GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

12416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Ti +1775%

73.5 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

2340 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1325 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

678.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

110

1664

Shading Units

14080

104

TMUs

440

56

ROPs

144

-

Tensor Cores

440

-

RT Cores

110

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

80 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

375.8 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1148 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

73.50 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

73.50 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1148 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

400W

300 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD102

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-225-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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